Outcome / 4-Mastery / 3-Proficient / 2-Adequate / 1-Limited
Comprehension
CR6.1: Read, comprehend and respond to a variety of texts that address social responsibility, efficacy, and identity.
CR6.6: Read and demonstrate comprehension and interpretation of grade-appropriate texts
CR6.7: Read independently and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of information texts with some specialized language
CR6.8: Read Grade 6 appropriate texts to increase fluency and expression / Reads a variety of texts and demonstratesinsightful literal and inferentialcomprehension through:
- Comprehensive summaries
- In-depth explanation of implicit and explicit messages and main ideas
- Providing rich and detailed evidence
- Making sophisticated personal connections to text ( text to text, text to self, text to world)
- Providing perceptive inferences
- Providing insightful support of opinions
- Compelling interpretation of author’s message and obvious themes
- Perceptive recognition of the author’s use of language and techniques
- Precisely identifying point of view in narrative
- Perceptive analysis and evaluation the author’s message
- Articulating multiple purposes for reading
- Accurate summaries
- Complete and accurate explanations of implicit and explicit messages and main ideas
- Providing relevant evidence
- Making explicit personal connections to text ( text to text, text to self, text to world)
- Providinglogical inferences
- Providing convincingsupport for opinions
- Logical interpretation of author’s message and obvious themes
- Accuraterecognition of the author’s use of language and techniques
- Accurately identifying point of view in narrative
- Logical analysis and evaluation of the author’s message
- Reading with a clear purpose in mind
- General summaries
- Partial explanations of implicit and explicit messages and main ideas
- Providing basic evidence
- Make predictablepersonal connections to text ( text to text, text to self, text to world)
- Providing obvious inferences
- Providing predictable support of opinions
- Basic interpretation author’s message and obvious themes
- Simplistic recognition of the author’s use of language and techniques
- Partially identifying point of view in narrative
- Superficial analysis and evaluation of the author’s message
- Identifying obvious purposes for reading
Silently (119- 159 wpm) with straightforward expression. / Reads a variety of texts and demonstratespartial comprehension through:
- Incomplete summaries
- Confusing explanation of implicit and explicit messages and main ideas
- Providing little or no evidence
- Making vague personal connections to text ( text to text, text to self, text to world)
- Providing weak inferences
- Providing vague support of opinions
- Questionable interpretation of author’s message and obvious themes
- Vague recognition of the author’s use of language and techniques
- Inability to identify point of view in narrative
- Undeveloped analysis and evaluation of the author’s message
- Being unaware of the variety of purposes for reading
Use of Strategies
CR6.2: Select and use appropriate strategies to construct meaning Before, During, and After reading / BEFORE
Skillfully and insightfully:
- Considers, activates, and builds prior knowledge
- Asks questions
- Previews text
- Anticipates message the author’s message
- Predicts what text will be about
- Sets purpose
Skillfully and insightfully:
- Connects and constructs meaning
- Notes key ideas and what supports them
- Constructs mental images
- Makes, confirms, and adjusts predictions
- Makes, confirms, and adjusts inferences and draws conclusion
- Ask questions and self-monitor comprehension
- Adjusts rate or strategy
Skillfully and insightfully:
- Recalls, paraphrases, summarizes, and synthesizes
- Reflects and interprets
- Evaluates and responds critically
- Evaluates craft and techniques
- Responds personally with support from text
- Reads again to deepen understanding and pleasure
Appropriately:
- Considers, activates, and builds prior knowledge
- Asks questions
- Previews text
- Anticipates message the author’s message
- Predicts what text will be about
- Sets purpose
Appropriately:
- Connects and constructs meaning
- Notes key ideas and what supports them
- Constructs mental images
- Makes, confirms, and adjusts predictions
- Makes, confirms, and adjusts inferences and draw conclusion
- Ask questions and self-monitors comprehension
- Adjusts rate or strategy
Appropriately:
- Recalls, paraphrases, summarizes, and synthesizes
- Reflects and interprets
- Evaluates and responds critically
- Evaluates craft and techniques
- Responds personally with support from text
- Reads again to deepen understanding and pleasure
Simplistic attempts to:
- Consider, activate, and build prior knowledge
- Ask questions
- Preview text
- Anticipate message the author’s message
- Predicts what text will be about
- Set purpose
Simplistic attempts to:
- Connect and construct meaning
- Note key ideas and what supports them
- Construct mental images
- Make, confirm, and adjust predictions
- Make, confirm, and adjust inferences and draw conclusion
- Ask questions and self-monitor comprehension
- Adjust rate or strategy
Simplistically attempts to:
- Recall, paraphrase, summarize, and synthesize
- Reflect and interpret
- Evaluate and respond critically
- Evaluate craft and techniques
- Respond personally with support from text
- Read again to deepen understanding and pleasure
Ineffective/undeveloped attempts to:
- Consider, activate, and build prior knowledge
- Ask questions
- Preview text
- Anticipate message the author’s message
- Predict what text will be about
- Set purpose
Ineffective/undeveloped attempts to:
- Connect and construct meaning
- Note key ideas and what supports them
- Construct mental images
- Make, confirm, and adjust predictions
- Make, confirm, and adjust inferences and draw conclusion
- Ask questions and self-monitor comprehension
- Adjust rate or strategy
Ineffective/undeveloped attempts to:
- Recall, paraphrase, summarize, and synthesize
- Reflect and interpret
- Evaluate and respond critically
- Evaluate craft and techniques
- Respond personally with support from text
- Read again to deepen understanding and pleasure
Cues & Conventions
CR6.3 Use pragmatic, textual, syntactic, semantic/lexical/ morphological, graphophonic, and other cues to construct and confirm meaning when reading. / Skillfully and insightfully recognizes, comprehends and explains: / Appropriatelyrecognizes, comprehends and explains: / Simplisticallyrecognizes, comprehends and explains: / Ineffective/undeveloped attempts to recognize, comprend and explain:
For example: / Pragmatic
Appropriatelyrecognizes and explains the:
- Function and purpose of texts
- Use of language and language register
- Author’s purpose and point of view
Appropriatelyrecognizes and explains how structures and features of texts work to shape understanding including:
- Form/genre
- Common organizational patterns
- Artistic devices
- Elements of texts
- Text features
Appropriately recognizes and comprehends sentence structures:
- Simple sentences
- Compound sentences
- Modified clauses
- Varied sentences beginnings
- Capitalization and punctuation
- Word order in a sentence
Appropriately recognizes and comprehends:
- Words that are appropriate for audience purpose and context
- Connotation
- Words used figuratively and for imagery
- Words by using context, prefixes, suffixes, root words and reference tools
Appropriately recognizes and explains:
- Word families
- Sound-symbol patterns